Here is a letter I received from from Bishop Williamson in response to one I'd sent him asking about armed resistance vs. going meekly like the martyrs. It's from a couple of years ago. I'm posting scans of both sides, and below them the contents as text.
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15 Feb 2011
Dear Mr. Kaftal,
As to self-defense, every man has a
natural right to defend himself against unjust aggression, because he has a duty to preserve and look after his own health and life. But this right goes no further than self-defense
in proportion to the aggression. For instance, I may not shoot to kill somebody who has merely hit me, unless it is clear, or seems clear, that he wants to kill
me. You were quite within your rights to hit back at the bullies.
Similarly modern governments, under the direction of enemies of God (one particular race especially, no longer held in check by the friends of God,
in particular the Catholic churchmen), are making themselves enemies of the peoples subject to them, as a general rule, part of the advance towards the final arrival of the Antichrist.
Therefore anybody forming part of any of these peoples (and Americans in the USA are certainly a people coming now under the injustices of a godless police state) has a right to defend himself, proportionate to the aggression. That aggression is so far only in a few cases physical, but it is threatening to become much more physical (internment camps, etc.), and so any American citizen has the right to possess firearms for eventual physical self-defense, even if the USA government passes a law ordering to give up those fire-arms. But the citizen must always use his head to measure (1) what self-defense is or is not proportionate, (2) whether defending himself by whatever means will not do more harm than good. Only exceptionally will Christians rise up against a tyrant, because often a rising makes the citizens' last state worse than their first (not always).
I hope this helps. God bless you,
+ Richard Williamson